Off to das Boot tomorrow and visiting a toy museum along the way.
I’ll not be there to admire the displays, but to discuss giving soem of my childhood toys to the collection. I have two snakes and ladders boards, a Ludo board, my Lindy Lou doll, and Toffee, the Merryweather Cheeky Monkey Bear I have had since I was a day old.
Here he is.
Toffee
His nose is rather skiwhiff as I used to suck it.
He wouldn’t pass today’s safety requirements. Those beady eyes are on long sharp wires. I’m lucky I survived infancy with my sight intact.
Sharp Eyed
Toffee may well come home again. Not ebcause the museum doesn’t want him. I am just not sure I am old enough to let him go yet.
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Keep Toffee a while yet, Isobel. You’ve lost a lot recently: snuggle him a while yet ( but protect your eyes)
Thanks Speccy. Yes, earlier in the year when I first started thinking about finding a museum that would take my toys mother was still alive and i could have given Toffee away knowing his future was safe. I should hate him to end up ina skip. But now, parting with him seems hard and harsh. So he’ll be with me a while longer until I am ready. However, he’ll be on a chair. I am not going to risk my eyes!
I agree with Speccy. I think you can use Toffee’s support for a while yet.
You could be right. 🙂
You can’t let Toffee go!
I still have him. 🙂
Keep Toffee! 🙂
He’s kept! 🙂
I love Toffee’s crooked little smile…..I say keep him….I still have my now-65 year old teddy and while he certainly is worse for wear, he still makes me smile.
Pam
I am strating to feel that. Maybe I should just tell my nephews where I want him to go when I don’t need him anymore! 🙂
Isobel! PLEASE don’t give Toffee away!!! PLEASE!
Whew! I don’t know what came over me.. 😀
Breathe in, breathe out Pix…….
You will never be old enough to give him up!!
I fear you are probably right. 🙂 But if i develop dementia, it is probably best he is passed onto someone who will care for him.
I showed the museum my toys and they would be happy to take all but my 1970s bear. In the end though, I just gave them two versions of Snakes and Ladders. One probably from the 1950s, the other from the 1960s. When I am ready they can have the rest. No hurry… 🙂
When I moved … half way around the world … I only brought a box that could weigh twenty kilos (!). Obviously I was rather restricted as to what put in it. One thing that did go in, was my, now fifty eight years old, brown teddy bear.
I’ll never be ready to let go..
no one is old enough to let go his childhood